Corn dog lovers, it's your day (thank two Corvallis guys)

Brady Sahnow and Henry Otley were basketball-obsessed
Corvallis high school students in 1992, watching the NCAA
men's tournament, subsisting on soda and chips.

For a couple of guys who had been watching, not playing,
hoops, they were unaccountably fatigued.

Sahnow's father, Stan, recognized the signs of
impending beriberi. He knew he had to rustle up some real
grub. That's when he discovered a 24 pack of corn dogs
in the freezer -- corn dogs he couldn't remember
buying.

Magical corn dogs, if you will.

Paired with mustard and ketchup, the dogs revivified and
sustained the lads through the day's four games.

After that, corn dogs and hoops became a yearly tradition
for Sahnow, Otley and their buddies, one that continued and
spread as they went off to various colleges. The tradition
kept growing until the first Saturday of the NCAA Tournament
became known to many -- even without a congressional
proclamation or other official blessing -- as National
Corndog Day.

"Saturday is the only day all year that one can watch a
quadruple-header of college basketball games from start to
finish without having to change the channel," the
official Web site, www.corndogday.com, proclaims.
"Therefore, to celebrate the excitement of the college
basketball tournament and have fun with friends, we eat
Corndogs! Lots of Corndogs. . . ."

Some celebrants today of National Corndog Day will try to
complete the Triple Double -- and they might count
themselves lucky if that attempt ends only in tears.

"I did the Triple Double once, many years ago,"
said co-founder Sahnow. "It's quite a challenge.
I've seen many big eaters fall by the way."

Sahnow and Otley started working with Foster Farms as a sponsor of National Corndog Day about 10 years ago and started the Web site about five years ago. More recently, they have added Pabst Blue Ribbon and Jones Soda as sponsors....

Corn dog lovers, it's your day (thank two Corvallis guys)

Brady Sahnow and Henry Otley were basketball-obsessed
Corvallis high school students in 1992, watching the NCAA
men's tournament, subsisting on soda and chips.

For a couple of guys who had been watching, not playing,
hoops, they were unaccountably fatigued.

Sahnow's father, Stan, recognized the signs of
impending beriberi. He knew he had to rustle up some real
grub. That's when he discovered a 24 pack of corn dogs
in the freezer -- corn dogs he couldn't remember
buying.

Magical corn dogs, if you will.

Paired with mustard and ketchup, the dogs revivified and
sustained the lads through the day's four games.

After that, corn dogs and hoops became a yearly tradition
for Sahnow, Otley and their buddies, one that continued and
spread as they went off to various colleges. The tradition
kept growing until the first Saturday of the NCAA Tournament
became known to many -- even without a congressional
proclamation or other official blessing -- as National
Corndog Day.

"Saturday is the only day all year that one can watch a
quadruple-header of college basketball games from start to
finish without having to change the channel," the
official Web site, www.corndogday.com, proclaims.
"Therefore, to celebrate the excitement of the college
basketball tournament and have fun with friends, we eat
Corndogs! Lots of Corndogs. . . ."

Some celebrants today of National Corndog Day will try to
complete the Triple Double -- and they might count
themselves lucky if that attempt ends only in tears.

"I did the Triple Double once, many years ago,"
said co-founder Sahnow. "It's quite a challenge.
I've seen many big eaters fall by the way."

Sahnow and Otley started working with Foster Farms as a sponsor of National Corndog Day about 10 years ago and started the Web site about five years ago. More recently, they have added Pabst Blue Ribbon and Jones Soda as sponsors....